Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blinded in one eye by a childhood accident, and haunted by the memory of a violin teacher mangled by a car near Hector's house. Héctor spent most of the long, monotonous days of his childhood drawing by himself-in books, on walls, on scraps of paper. Finally his father, who had once hoped to be a sculptor, decided that Hector should become an artist...
...ctor Poleo still paints as if he had taken lessons from some Renaissance master. But his subjects are a modern nightmare. His women, like modern Madonnas, mourn, eyes shut against the world. A disfigured war hero stares numbly out of his canvas, his blind eye patched with paper money, his chest covered with worthless medals of tin, cork, broken combs, and tiny crutches. Poleo's trees are dead, his earth pocked and parched, his cities mere ruins and rubble. In some paintings, there are no signs of life at all-only tiny ladders down which the human race...
...went able, cool Robert Garst, 47, who intends to keep.the same hours as most of his 150 reporters (2 to 11 p.m.). One sensible and (for the Times') revolutionary result: the new city editor would read his staff's stories before they went into the morning paper, see the finished Times before its subscribers...
...mysterious annex housed huge new presses, a topnotch photo lab, a complete city room-facilities to turn out another paper as big as the morning Times itself (circ. 400,000 daily, 800,000 Sunday). Publisher Norman Chandler had just appointed 40-year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley...
...Times was talking, but almost everyone else in town was. The rumor: that the Times was about to start a new afternoon paper (Los Angeles has three A.M.s but only...